northernbook Chapter 27 Cloud Soaring Sect 10
Chapter 27 Cloud Soaring Sect 10
The next day, the sound of hundreds of birds singing could be heard outside. When Cheng Jiu opened the window, he saw an extremely shocking scene.
Tens of thousands of white birds lined up in a row, chasing after a white phoenix. The birds, singing and flying, soared and swam among the peaks, creating a breathtaking scene.
Although today's competition is a team event, it is much more grand in scale than the previous individual and doubles competitions, with the entire Yunxiao Sect decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations.
The disciples of the Cloud Soaring Sect were all dressed in white sect robes, and the cultivation techniques they practiced were fast and ethereal.
Moreover, they generally belong to the Water and Wood element, which is known for producing beauties, giving one a sense of a celestial palace in the clouds.
After Cheng Jiu finished washing up, Qin Che was dressed in a green clan robe and was holding a stack of green clan robes in his hands.
"Grandmaster Uncle, you're finally awake. Master asked me to bring you the sect robes." Qin Che smiled and handed the sect robes to Cheng Jiu.
"I'm not a participant, so I shouldn't need to wear it, right?" Cheng Jiu said with a look of resistance.
"Did you see the Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix just now, Grandmaster Uncle?" Qin Che wasn't surprised at all, after all, he had also shown a face full of resistance when he saw his own clan's robes.
He even tried to run away, but was caught by his senior brother and second senior sister, who forced him to wear the clothes! Heaven knows how pathetic and helpless he was at that time!
"I saw it." Cheng Jiu was awakened by the sound of a hundred birds paying homage to the phoenix.
"Isn't it beautiful!"
"Quite good looking."
"The Cloud Soaring Sect has received all the major sects with the highest level of hospitality. My master said that our Guiyuan Sect should also show our sect's attitude. Not only you, but the two Venerable Lords should also wear them. Otherwise, a few pink and white spots in a sea of green would be detrimental to the unity of the sect." Qin Che spread out the green clothes in his hand. "I came here especially to give them to you, Grandmaster Uncle."
The style is a flowing, fairy-like dress with water sleeves. However, although it's a dress on the outside, it's actually trousers on the bottom, and there's an inner garment underneath. This makes it not only capable and stylish, but the dress also won't hold you back during a fight, and it gives off an ethereal feel when worn out.
If you remove this color, the dress is actually quite beautiful, but I wonder which genius predecessor created it.
Seriously, this color could ruin any dress in the world. It's just too bright!
With things already said this far, what else could Cheng Jiu do? She reached out and took it with a long face.
Cheng Jiu has fair skin. After changing, she looked in the mirror and felt like she looked like a giant green onion, which was really weird.
Qin Che looked her over and comforted her, "Don't worry, Grandmaster Uncle isn't ugly!"
Yes, it's only because it's not ugly that no one can wear this outfit well. Even someone with Huo Yan's stunning good looks would look overshadowed by the color of the clothes, making him look very green.
Cheng Jiu had only glanced at it briefly before, but this time when he entered the venue, the other senior brothers would also watch the inter-sect competition with them.
Then she noticed that, apart from her own friend Mao Hongsheng, the faces of all the senior brothers in Tifeng had turned even darker from the green clothes they were wearing.
Moreover, green is generally associated with elegance, and when it's worn by a strong and robust senior brother, it creates an even more bizarre and ugly feeling.
Perhaps because of such a stark contrast, Cheng Jiu couldn't help but feel a little comforted.
After realizing this thought, Cheng Jiu really felt that he shouldn't have calmed down after mentally tapping the wooden fish several times!
"Senior Brother Mao." He walked over to his friend Cheng Jiu.
"Junior Sister Xiao Jiu, where are the two Junior Brothers Gong?" Mao Hongsheng looked behind her, since the three of them were always inseparable.
Cheng Jiu slowly turned her gaze to Qin Che. She didn't know why Qin Che had brought her here as soon as she changed her clothes.
"The two grandmaster uncles are currently with Venerable Qingyang. They are quite resistant to the sect's robes. My eldest brother couldn't do anything about it, so he informed Venerable Qingyang, who then came and took them away."
Qin Che felt a little sad. Fortunately, the junior grandmaster he chose, although not the obedient type, was still relatively well-behaved in this respect. Those two were really too noisy.
Huo Yan also came over. He had a low profile, even in such a bright color, he still had a very low profile.
He listened quietly until the three finished talking before they noticed him. The three greeted him, and Huo Yan nodded happily.
After a while, the two little cabbages finally arrived, and they looked quite upset.
"Junior Sister, you have no idea how outrageous my master is. He actually..." Gong Yu was about to complain when she saw Cheng Jiu, but was then elbowed by her older brother.
Gong Yu also realized that this was not a good thing to talk to Cheng Jiu about, so she shut her mouth, feeling wronged.
Miyagi also seemed somewhat exhausted, but he didn't want to mention a word about the process; it was too humiliating—his clothes were stripped off by his master.
Before they could even resist, he put it on them and said that if they dared to take it off again, he, as their master, wouldn't mind helping them put it back on.
Qin Che, standing to the side, saw the expressions on their faces and understood. Indeed, he had experienced something similar, even though he was young then.
But his second senior sister also helped him get dressed. She said that if she hadn't always had no intention of finding a Daoist partner, her grandson would be as big as Qin Che by now, so what was there to be shy about?
However, Qin Che and his second senior sister were only a few hundred years apart in age. Perhaps when he was young, his second senior sister could have been his grandmother. But given their talents, how could they have lived to such an old age?
If they hadn't perished, they would have been roughly the same age in another thousand years, since they would both be around 1000 years old. What if they lived any longer?
"Even if I live again, Qin Che will believe my second senior sister's nonsense."
But there was no other way. At that time, he was young and weak, and the sect leader was always very busy. The learning and growth of these junior disciples were basically taken care of by the eldest senior brother and the second senior sister.
In truth, these two people are more like parents to their young disciples; sometimes they are genuinely caring.
On the competition stage, the Yunxiao Sect had arranged a performance, and their disciples from Yuefeng danced gracefully, a truly beautiful sight.
Finally, there was a ten-person ensemble. After the music had become a path to immortality, it was no longer like the tunes in the mortal world, which you could just arbitrarily compose and have others play.
That's simply impossible, because everyone's path of cultivation is different, which can easily lead to conflict. Music is inclusive, but people are not.
In the entire cultivation world, only the Music Peak of the Guiyuan Sect can support a hundred, a thousand, or even ten thousand people playing together. Therefore, the Music Peak's signature piece is also the foundation of the entire Guiyuan Sect.
This ensemble of ten is already a masterpiece of music in the entire cultivation world, with an inspiring and uplifting effect.
The performance of these ten people alone was enough to give a huge shock to sects other than the five major sects.
Apart from the five major sects, other sects were all discussing it and expressing their amazement.
After the performance, the sect leaders and elders of the five major sects slowly descended from the sky to their seats in the uppermost pavilion.
Cheng Jiu was saddened to discover that the two venerable lords, despite wearing such ugly Chinese robes, actually did not look ugly!
Their powerful aura completely overshadowed the clothes they wore, giving them a fresh and ethereal feel—in my previous life's terms, it was the difference between a buyer's show and a seller's show.
"Master and Uncle Qingyang are so handsome," Cheng Jiu exclaimed.
"We cultivators don't care about beauty or ugliness," Gong Yu said, but his expression didn't seem to reflect that. Young people are always concerned about their appearance.
"I heard that our sect's robes were modified by the seventy-ninth sect leader. He really liked wearing this color of clothing and was known as Young Master Qingmu."
"This Qingmu City below is named after him; it used to be called Zeguang City," Qin Che explained.
"That was 100,000 years ago. Back then, those evil cultivators and demonic cultivators sacrificed Ze Guang City and summoned the Demon Emperor. It was a matter of life and death for the cultivation world. It was the Qingmu Sect Master who took the initiative to stand up and perish together with the Demon Emperor. The city below was renamed Qingmu City in memory of the Qingmu Sect Master."
The Yunxiao Sect, which is closest to here, chose to move its sect here because it was uncertain whether any remnants of the original formation remained or if it would revive and summon the Demon Emperor again.
From then on, Qingmu City became a city directly under the jurisdiction of the Yunxiao Sect.
They were originally in Huaguang City, since Qingmu City doesn't have particularly good resources.
At the time, the entire Yunxiao Sect supported the project, and to prevent the Demon Emperor from being summoned here one day, the sect devoted all its resources to building the Yunxiao Heavenly Palace.
The four had never heard of such a secret matter before; it must have been from a very long time ago. All they knew was that the demonic and evil cultivators of that time had gone too far and sacrificed an entire city.
Therefore, the five major sects joined forces to encircle and suppress them, vowing to never let anyone escape once caught, and to execute any cultivator caught on the spot. Even the Heavenly Dao sided with the five major sects.
At this point, how could the four of them complain? They could only say they were very fortunate to be able to wear this color, because it was the favorite color of someone who had saved the cultivation world.
Seeing the softened expressions on his four junior brothers and sisters' faces, Qin Che chuckled inwardly. "I know you all too well." After all, he'd been through the same thing; how could he possibly look down on them?
The contestants for the sect competition have lined up in rows, with the five major sects in the middle being the most eye-catching, displaying strength and impressive momentum.
The weight of the weight made the surrounding group of people pale in comparison.
Guiyuan Sect is the only composite sect. It seems to lack its own distinct characteristics, much like its leader, Senior Brother Nan. Seemingly unremarkable, it is actually extremely powerful, like a smooth stone without any flaws or strengths.
Therefore, the battles are unpredictable. For example, one can launch a strong attack, with both sword cultivators and body cultivators exerting their full strength, or one can defend against the disciples of Zhenfeng and Danfeng, who are not to be underestimated.
The fight scenes were absolutely spectacular.
The most distinctive feature of the Cloud Soaring Sect is their footwork, which is ethereal, agile, and extremely fast.
Other sects couldn't catch them at all, let alone attack them. They could only slowly wear down their strength in their cat-and-mouse game, or they couldn't withstand their attacks and had to surrender.
The Dragon Abyss Sect is a well-established department of sword cultivators, and compared to other sects, they already possessed their own natal swords when they reached the Golden Core stage.
These people's swords were obtained from the Sword Abyss, a treasure land of their sects, and were the most suitable swords for them, and all of them possessed sword spirits.
Apart from the sword that ascended to heaven with its master, the rest of the swords have all had different masters.
Through generations of maintenance and refinement, none of these swords are ordinary, and when paired with their carefully selected masters, their destructive power is astonishing.
Medicine King Valley's fighting style is purely about using alchemy furnaces to smash and release poison. Of course, there are one or two people among them who have excellent swordsmanship and outstanding physical skills, but the overall fighting style is still to release poison and then smash with alchemy furnaces.
The Wuji Sect excels in physical techniques. Relying on their physical defense, they charge headlong into their enemies, and smaller sects simply cannot break through their defenses and can only take a beating.
So in the end, only five major sects remained. At this point, it was a contest of luck. After all, each sect had many advantages and disadvantages, and they countered each other. At this time, it all came down to luck.
Guiyuan Sect was the first to be eliminated, and they ran into Longyuan Sect's team. That Senior Sister Quan was simply too overpowered. Previously, she had comprehended a strike containing sword dao against Senior Brother Hou of Wuji Sect.
Although she was ultimately harmed by the backlash, she was able to regain control after just a few days of recuperation. While the power wasn't as great as before, this was still the way of the sword!
Apart from Senior Brother Nan, who could exchange a few blows with her, no one else in the Guiyuan Sect was a match for her.
Especially when Guiyuan Sect makes arrangements, it's a comprehensive competition, so it takes time.
It might not have taken long, but Senior Sister Quan didn't give Guiyuan Sect any time at all, and she wiped them out in just a few moves.
A highly skilled swordsman is practically a kingpin in this respect.
Although they lost as expected, Guiyuan Sect was not too disappointed, since they had expected to lose when they drew Longyuan Sect in the first place.
Medicine King Valley also lost. They faced the Wuji Sect, whose brutes were not afraid of the poison at all and charged straight at them, beating them to a pulp.
The battle between the Wuji Sect and the Yunxiao Sect was incredibly long. The Yunxiao Sect was very fast, and the Wuji Sect simply couldn't catch up, let alone defeat them.
The Cloud Soaring Sect found it difficult to break through the Wuji Sect's defenses, and the two sects remained locked in a stalemate on the stage. In the end, the Wuji Sect grew tired of the situation and voluntarily stepped down.
When the Dragon Abyss Sect faced off against the Cloud Soaring Sect, the sword cultivators were not afraid of these fast-moving opponents. They released sword energy, sword intent, sword realm, and even sword dao.
The entire arena was enveloped by the swordsmanship of the ten people. Senior Sister Quan even sensed the opponent's next move based on her own understanding of swordsmanship and then launched an attack.
After fierce competition, Longyuan Sect won the sect competition.
Their points also jumped to first place.
Current points ranking,
Longyuan Sect
Medicine King Valley
Guiyuan Sect
Wuji Sect
Yunxiao Sect
……
Tomorrow will be the climax of the sect competition. The Secret Realm!
It's like opening a hidden treasure chest in your past life; once inside, you're set off to collect money. Whoever is skilled can collect the most money. It tests not only your eyesight and hearing but also your martial arts skills.
Although the Cloud Soaring Sect has already cleared it out, there are still many powerful demonic beasts. At least for Foundation Establishment disciples, this secret realm is still quite dangerous, and it's best to stay with your senior brothers and sisters.